{"id":17517,"date":"2025-01-28T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/chinese-ai-chatbot-deepseek-censors-itself-in-realtime-users-report\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:40:05","slug":"chinese-ai-chatbot-deepseek-censors-itself-in-realtime-users-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/chinese-ai-chatbot-deepseek-censors-itself-in-realtime-users-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on version downloaded, app approaches its answers with preamble of reasoning that it then erases<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/28\/we-tried-out-deepseek-it-works-well-until-we-asked-it-about-tiananmen-square-and-taiwan\">We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Users experimenting with DeepSeek have seen the Chinese AI chatbot reply and then censor itself in real time, providing an arresting insight into its control of information and opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Users might expect censorship to happen behind closed doors, before any information is shared. But that does not seem to be the case in the tool that sent US technology stocks tumbling on Monday. DeepSeek, or the automated guardrails that appear to police its own freedom of \u201cthought\u201d and \u201cspeech\u201d, brazenly deletes uncomfortable points.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/28\/chinese-ai-chatbot-deepseek-censors-itself-in-realtime-users-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ab75e45184a48bb687ca6123802f41cabd04627d\/0_305_5706_3424\/master\/5706.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2bcf6e40c0c73c72789d997f94d2abea\" title=\"Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report\" \/>Depending on version downloaded, app approaches its answers with preamble of reasoning that it then erases<br \/>\nWe tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan<br \/>\nUsers experimenting with DeepSeek have seen the Chinese AI chatbot reply and then censor itself in real time, providing an arresting insight into its control of information and opinion.<br \/>\nUsers might expect censorship to happen behind closed doors, before any information is shared. But that does not seem to be the case in the tool that sent US technology stocks tumbling on Monday. DeepSeek, or the automated guardrails that appear to police its own freedom of \u201cthought\u201d and \u201cspeech\u201d, brazenly deletes uncomfortable points. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on version downloaded, app approaches its answers with preamble of reasoning that it then erases We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan Users experimenting with DeepSeek have seen the Chinese AI chatbot reply and then censor itself in real time, providing an arresting insight into &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/chinese-ai-chatbot-deepseek-censors-itself-in-realtime-users-report\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}